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I didn’t know what to expect when I arrived in Stuttgart, but I found that I liked the city very much. It has a number of cemeteries one could visit as well, although I only really had time for two. The first on the list was Pragfriedhof, about a 30-minute walk north Continue reading “Cemetery 64: Stuttgart’s Pragfriedhof”→

On my way from Cologne to Stuttgart, I stopped by the small city of Worms, which happens to have the oldest surviving Jewish cemetery in Europe (if you don’t count Jewish burials in Roman catacombs). It is called Heiligar Sand, which means “Holy Continue reading “Cemetery 63: Worms’ Heiligar Sand”→

I usually try to avoid going to cemeteries on Sundays, as I know this will be a day when there will be many mourners and other visitors there to visit and tend to graves. Since I like to be as unobtrusive as possible, I find that going any other day of the week to be preferred. Continue reading “Cemetery 62: Cologne’s Melaten Cemetery”→

German cemeteries rarely make it into any top ten or twenty list of the best cemeteries to visit, and I’m not sure why. Well, maybe I do. Firstly, I have a feeling that most people who write those lists have not been to any of the cemeteries they write about. Secondly, and this is connected to the first Continue reading “Cemetery 61: Hamburg’s Ohlsdorf Cemetery”→

There was a light drizzle as I made my way to one of Munich’s largest cemetery, the Ostfriedhof. But it looked like the sky was clearing as I arrived, so I wasn’t too worried about it. There is a streetcar that will bring you right to the edge of the cemetery, but I took the metro so had to walk a little bit Continue reading “Cemetey 58: Munich’s Ostfriedhof”→

Spring showers bring, uh, March flowers? You bet. Nordfriedhof had quite a lot, but I was unprepared for the Alter Sudfriedhof (the old south cemetery). It was a field of crocuses everywhere you looked. Deep purple ones, yellow ones, and colours in between. Oh, and snow drops too. Continue reading “Cemetery 57: Munich’s Alter Sudfriedhof”→

I woke up to a beautiful, bright sunny day and headed straight for Munich’s northern cemetery, the Nordfriedhof, as the first of three cemeteries I would visit this day (the other two being the Alter Sudfriedhof and the Ostfriedhof). I was excited as I got off the U-Bahn train at, not surprisingly, Continue reading “Cemetery 56: Munich’s Nordfriedhof”→

I’m in Munich for a conference at the university, and was unprepared for the almost two hour lunch break they had set aside for us. So I decided to see if there were any cemeteries nearby, and I found one just in the other side of the Englischer Garten. After a quick lunch in the Continue reading “Cemetery 55: Munich’s Bogenhausen”→